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Building Digital Communities in the Humanities and Social Sciences

Event chair: Graham Jensen (UVic) 4:00pm – 5:00 pm PDT Wednesday, 7 June Building Digital Communities in the Humanities and Social Sciences provides academic researchers, information professionals, administrators, students, and members of the interested public with the opportunity to explore how digital research commons can transform scholarly communication, publication, and collaboration. Featured speakers will discuss related issues, […]

Conference & Colloquium | On Campus, Day 2

Conference chair: Caroline Winter (UVic) This conference takes place throughout both the on campus and online week of DHSI. Please see the dates below. On Campus 4:00pm – 5:00 pm PDT Tuesday, 6 June and Thursday, 8 June Online 10:00am – 12:00 pm PDT Tuesday, 13 June and Friday, 16 June Since 2009, the DHSI […]

Institute Lecture: Chris Friend

David Lam Auditorium (MAC A144)

What COVID tore down might never have stood. As classes moved from in-person to online delivery, many teachers lamented the loss of connection in exchange for connectivity; face-to-face sessions in exchange for Zoom meetings. We longed for that special vibe we feel when sharing space with one another. But do we take full advantage of […]

#GraphPoem

Event chair: Chris Tanasescu (UCLouvain) 12:00pm – 2:00pm PDT Friday, 9 June All those connected to DHSI and its 2023 edition are invited to be part of the EPoetry event #GraphPoem by MARGENTO by contributing text files or weblinks to a collectively assembled dataset and/or run a script plotting the latter into a real-time evolving […]

Open/Social/Digital Humanities Pedagogy, Training, and Mentorship

Conference chairs: Laura Estill (St. Francis Xavier U), Ray Siemens (UVic), and Constance Crompton (U Ottawa) 10:00am – 12:00pm PDT Monday, 12 June A Virtual Conference of the ADHO Special Interest Group for Digital Humanities Pedagogy and Training and the INKE Open Social Scholarship Cluster. Open/Social/Digital Humanities Pedagogy, Training, and Mentorship encourages engagement of pertinent […]

Online Lecture: Gimena del Rio Riande

Zoom

These days UNESCO has released open science recommendations and publishing companies are signing open transformative agreements with universities in Europe and North America. Open science is a pragmatic concept that highlights the role of transparent and reproducible research practices, open dissemination of results, and new forms of collaboration, all greatly facilitated by digitization. It comprises […]

Conference & Colloquium | Online, Day 3

Conference chair: Caroline Winter (UVic) This conference takes place throughout both the on campus and online week of DHSI. Please see the dates below. On Campus 4:00pm – 5:00 pm PDT Tuesday, 6 June and Thursday, 8 June Online 10:00am – 12:00 pm PDT Tuesday, 13 June and Friday, 16 June Since 2009, the DHSI […]

Online Lecture: Edmond Chang

Zoom

Building on Tara McPherson’s work on race, critical code studies, and feminist critiques of DH, which is provocatively condensed in her essay “Why Are the Digital Humanities So White?,” this presentation hopes to ask and address, “Why Are the Digital Humanities So Straight?” This talk will use the mediums of code and digital games to […]

Project Management in the Humanities

Conference chair: Lynne Siemens (UVic) 10:00am – 12:00pm PDT Wednesday, 14 June Project management is a tool that has long been associated with business. Its use in the academy is increasing as projects grow beyond the scope of a single researcher. Funding agencies are encouraging this trend by requesting detailed and realistic work plans as […]

Open, Digital, Collaborative Project Preservation in the Humanities

Conference chair: Luis Meneses (Vancouver Island U) Open digital collaborative scholarship in the Arts and Humanities is significant for facilitating public access to and engagement with research, and as a mechanism of growing the digital scholarly infrastructure. But the path to adopting open, collaborative, digital scholarship has been challenging, not least of all due to […]

Online Lecture: Lai-Tze Fan

Zoom

The Turing Test—a thought experiment in which a human and a computer both try to convince an interrogator that they are human—is actually based on another thought experiment by Alan Turing, the Imitation Game—in which a man and woman both try to convince an interrogator that they are a woman. Why is it significant that […]

Conference & Colloquium | Online, Day 4

Conference chair: Caroline Winter (UVic) This conference takes place throughout both the on campus and online week of DHSI. Please see the dates below. On Campus 4:00pm – 5:00 pm PDT Tuesday, 6 June and Thursday, 8 June Online 10:00am – 12:00 pm PDT Tuesday, 13 June and Friday, 16 June Since 2009, the DHSI […]